Women’s team settle for runners-up position
The Karnataka men and women teams have emerged winners and 1st runners-up respectively in the 14th South Zone National Netball Championship held at Puducherry on Dec. 25 and 26.
Karnataka men’s team beat Kerala 25-24 in the finals to emerge champions while Karnataka women’s team lost to Kerala 28-13 and secured 1st runners-up position
After a few nail-biting final rounds and some top quality singing, Vaibhav Kamat, Goa was crowned ‘Rai Kogull’ (King Nightingale) and Sonal Monteiro, Shaktinagar ‘Rani Kogull’ (Queen Nightingale) in MCC Bank Ltd SOAD-5 MANGOA’, the Konkani television singing contest powered by MCC Bank Ltd and telecasted exclusively on Daijiworld 24×7 channel.
He is a storehouse of knowledge on Indian trees, plants and herbs, and in his farm, which is nothing like the traditional setup, the flora grows wildly and naturally.
The farm has over 300 species of plants and trees, all either edible or used for medicinal purposes.
Srivathsa Govindaraju, a software engineer-turned-farmer, started his farm 13 years ago with the intent of “respecting nature as it is and to understand how it functions”.
Olympian M.P. Ganesh, who captained the Indian hockey team and was honoured with the Padma Shri by President Ram Nath Kovind, is Coorg Person of the Year-2021.
Mollera Poovaiah Ganesh, hailing from Suntikoppa in Kodagu district, was selected ‘Coorg Person of the Year’ in a poll conducted by www.coorgtourisminfo.com, Kodagu’s first news portal, promoted by journalist and author P.T. Bopanna.
Tropical Creativity, a YouTube channel owned by Armando Roque Fernandes, created in Goa, basically to take interesting contents from local to global, has produced a historical informative documentary ‘O Padre Santo’ which is based on the central character St Francis Xavier who is one of the most famous saint in the world, whose sacred relics are existing in Goa since the last 468 years.
The powerful content in the documentary produced under ‘Noah Films’ by Tropical Creativity, is made at present in 13 languages mainly Konkani, English, Kannada, Malayalam, Spanish, French, Portuguese, Hindi, Bengali, Telugu, Tamil, Marathi, Gujarati. The idea is to take local content on a global stage in languages known across the world. With the success of this concept, ‘Noah Films’ will bring more powerful contents in the form of documentaries, entertainment & education in multiple languages. The teaser and the concept trailer has been released.
Mangaluru International Airport (MIA) commissioned a state-of-the-art security operation control centre (SOCC) of the aviation security group (ASG), CISF.
The three-day sports meet for District Police, organised by Mysuru District Police at the District Armed Reserve (DAR) Police Parade Grounds at Jyothinagar here, concluded yesterday evening.
The District Armed Reserve Police team, which had garnered most points by winning prizes in various sports events, bagged the overall team championship trophy. While Raghunandan of DAR bagged the individual award in the men’s category, K. Ashwini of Bannur Police Station bagged the award in the women’s category.
‘Mohtisham Canopy’, the residential apartment project of Mohtisham, the most acclaimed and trusted real estate developers of the city, has been conferred with ‘Well-built Concrete Structure (multi-storey) in Dakshina Kannada, Udupi, Shivamogga and Chikkamagaluru districts’ category for 2021.
The award will be handed over to team Mohtisham at an awards nite which will be held on January 11 at Milagres Hall.
A youth, who has reached senior citizen’s age now, who found the black box of the Navy helicopter that crashed on Western Ghats in 1991, did not receive the promised prize money.
In 1991, a Navy helicopter that was carrying very critical documents from Mangaluru to Bengaluru crashed on the plateau of Aramane Gudda on Western Ghats. Four people, including a colonel, lost their lives in the mishap. Even after frantic searching the helicopter could not be located.
Puttaswamy Gowda, a youth of 33 years, resident of Vanagoor village, continued his search in the quest of getting the prize, though all others stopped the hunt for the black box of the helicopter. After two years of continuous search he was able to locate the black box in 1992 October on the plateau of Aramane Gudda.
The new website of Karnataka Lokayukta was launched on Thursday.
According to an official release, Governor Thaawarchand Gehlot, who inaugurated the website at the Lokayukta headquarters in the city, said the Lokayukta website has been upgraded to provide transparency in the functioning of the organisation and provide timely information to complainants, defendants, and the public.